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above, paler and more or less pubescent on the nerves beneath; 1-5 to 

 4 in. long, 1 to 3 in. wide ; petiole 1 to 2 in. long. Floioers in 

 axillary whorls ; the upper floral leaves usually entire ; bracts -5 in. 

 long, spinescent. Calyx -25 in. (in fruit -35 in.) long, glabrous or 

 sparingly pubescent ; tube -2 in. long ; teeth spinescent from a shortly 

 triangular base. Corolla -4 to -5 in. long, red ; tube -25 in. long, 

 annulate within ; lower lip 3-lobed, mid-lobe obcordate, the lateral 

 lobes rounded ; upper lip obovate, galeate, entire, pubescent. Fila- 

 ments exserted. Nutlets -1 in. long, triquetrous, truncate. Wall. Cat. 

 2071 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. 501 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 978 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 678. L. tataricus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 127; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 8 {not of Linn.) 



In some of the provinces, in waste places ; an introduced weed of 

 waysides and waste places. — Disteib. Originally Asiatic, now almost 

 cosmopolitan. 



Though described by Bentham, and by Hooker, ll.cc, as not annulate, the 

 corolla-tube of this species is distinctly annulate within. The annulus is slightly 

 oblique, rather higher anteriorly, and is slightly imperfect, there being a small 

 hiatus behind where the style comes in contact with the corolla-tube. 



16. Paeaphlomis, Prain. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves membranous. Floivers medium, yellow 

 or whitish, in dense axillary, many-flowered whorls ; bracteoles 

 numerous, filiform. Calyx 10-nerved, equally 5-toothed ; tube slightly 

 incurved. Corolla-tuhe annulate within ; upper lip erect, pubescent 

 externally, quite glabrous within ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. 

 Stamens 4, ascending under upper lip, lower pair longer ; all filaments 

 without basal appendages ; anthers connivent ; cells divaricate. Disk 

 uniform, entire. Style 2-fid, lobes subequal or the upper shorter than 

 lower. Nutlets obovoid, triquetrous below, rounded above, glabrous. — 

 Disteib. Species 3 ; two Malayan, one extending from the Eastern 

 Himalaya to the Philippines. 



Paeaphlomis eugosa, Prain in Ann. Roy. Bot. Card. Calc. IX. i. 

 60 (1901). A coarse shrubby plant, 2 to 3 ft. high. Stems stout or 

 slender, minutely hirsute with deflexed hairs. Leaves opposite, 

 membranous, dark-green above, paler beneath, glabrous or with 

 minute scattered hairs on the upper surface, elliptic or oblong-ovate, 

 acuminate ; base ciuieate or truncate, entire ; margin elsewhere shortly 

 toothed, 6 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 in. wide; petiole slender, 2 to 4 in. long. 

 Flotoers in small distant or rather approximate whorls, axillary and 



